Olive house/ground snake

South African snakes commonly known as non-venomous, including the Natal rock python (Python natalensis).

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Olive house/ground snake

Postby GCol » Tue Jan 17, 2012 12:39 pm

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Re: Olive house/ground snake

Postby jka » Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:19 pm

Nice looking.olive house snake. Is it your captive or did you catch him?
Evolution is an imperfect and often violent process. A battle between what exists, and what is yet to be born.
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Re: Olive house/ground snake

Postby GCol » Tue Jan 17, 2012 3:53 pm

Thanks
I removed a gravid female on a call out and kept her till she laid, incubated the eggs, kept two hatchlings and released everything else.
They doing very well just battling to get them onto mice.
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